Theory of Applying Heat Flow from Thermostatted Boundary Walls: Dissipative and Local-Equilibrium Responses and Fluctuation Theorems

Abstract

We construct a microscopic theory of applying a heat flow from thermostatted boundary walls in the film geometry. We treat a classical one-component fluid, but our method is applicable to any fluids and solids. We express linear response of any variable $\mathcal{B}$ in terms of the time-correlation functions between $\mathcal{B}$ and the heat flows ${\mathcal{J}}_K$ from the thermostats to the particles. Furthermore, the surface variables ${\mathcal{J}}_K$ can be written in the form of space integrals of bulk quantities from the equations of motion. Owing to this surface-to-bulk relation, the steady-state response functions consist of dissipative and local-equilibrium parts, where the former gives rise to Fourier's law with Green's expression for the thermal conductivity. In the nonlinear regime, we derive the steady-state distribution in the phase space in the McLennan-Zubarev form from the first principles. Some fluctuation theorems are also presented.

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